(haven't tried, though)
Note that there is a "proper" Wikidata graph database being developed by
WMF. Once that reaches production, WDQ will likely become a wrapper around
that database (for backwards compatibility). SPARQL (shudder) seems to be
the future...
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:14 AM Fabian Tompsett <
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Great work, Navino!
I agree, using google docs for the prototype is a really good way of
getting something started
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On 9 March 2015 at 21:42, Navino Evans <navino(a)histropedia.com> wrote:
Many thanks Markus :-)
The plan for us now is to get our developer to start making some of these
'query modules', and publish them as open source. They would be use-able as
a stand-alone tool, but more importantly be embeddable and easily
customisable in layout etc so that third parties could use them easily. The
hope going forward would be that we could eventually create an open source,
searchable library of such query modules, each one specialised enough that
they can be very easily understood by a human putting in the data.
Navino
On 9 March 2015 at 21:32, Markus Krötzsch <markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org>
wrote:
Awesome work :-). I love your use of Google Docs
as a UI prototyping
tool. We could really use a few more special-purpose querying tools.
Markus
On 09.03.2015 22:03, Navino Evans wrote:
Hi all,
We've been using WDQ queries a lot recently to update timelines in the
Histropedia directory and, while trying to speed up the process, I ended
up creating a very crude query generator tool over the weekend. After
getting a bit carried away with it, it seemed worth sharing as it could
actually be a handy tool for Wikidata editors, or anyone else interested
in experimenting with queries.
I have no real coding experience, so it's just made in a humble
spreadsheet! You can choose the input values for a query and the links
to Histropedia, AutoList and WDQ will update automatically.The idea is
obviously that this sort of tool should be written in Javascript by
someone who actually knows what they're doing ;) but they do work and
can easily be customised by adding more Wikidata items to the available
options.
I've made 3 different types of query generator so far, which I'll
publish shortly as free templates on Google Sheets:
1) Date range query generator
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A8wyqVc5USJ_
T8ncFfYIsmJzfy8LIdmH2QLgeyegRAM/edit?usp=sharing>
2) People finder query generator
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16-
x7NGyHTAtEJBa5uF9ZYBhNj6BhhCJrtDaKCcJIFuE/edit?usp=sharing>
3) Family tree query generator
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dNTBoi-QbI0t-t0Ba4Ex5-
sx7Q03qRecE27bapQGpAw/edit?usp=sharing>
They are publicly editable spreadsheets so feel free to make a copy if
someone is using the one you land on. And certainly don't hold back if
anyone wishes to make any improvements.
I hope someone finds it useful/fun to mess around with these, but I
thought it was a nice story to share in itself - that a non-coder can
sit down and create something genuinely useful by tapping into the power
of Wikidata, and of course Magnus' amazing tools! :)
Cheers,
Navino
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